New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-02-18
NO MORE STOVES IN CARS.
SOME INVENTORS PLANS FOB HEATING.

THE MASTER CAR BUILDERS LISTEN TO A VARIETY
OF SCHEMES AND POSTPONE JUDGMENT
Tho Master Car Builders' Club gave the inventors
and patentees of all sorts of contvances for the safer
heating Of hallway chance last night at the club
rooms. No. lib Iibertyst, TO- show Just how this or
that particular stove method Of steam or water
pipes was going to do away with all possible dangers
and dsoomorts OF winter travel o. +. Carey presided
and had hard work to kee, the fluent and argumon-
tatve rival inventors from running the discussion into
a competitive examination 40 full OF amenities as q
political debate
d. Baker, tho inventor OF the welknown Baker
heater bad the floor frs and showed to his own salts
faction that other bot-water system or
system was fit yet to displace the Baker one. Inc
Baker heater is sort of stove cased in at one END OF
the car through which feet of endless coil OF
pipe run. The water is heated at the stove end ana
kept circulating through the coils along the bottom
aud sides of the Mr. Baker thinks that the stove
part can be shut in efectuay so as not to ignite the
rest OF the car in case OF deralment or collision.
Besides, there danger of the ovcrheated water
bursting the pipes. There we're 10Ol difficulties IN inc
way of steam heating the cost of steam used in the
pipes being great as that Of the motive power.
with small trains running short distances.
W. j. Crcamer, the next speaker,h had no patent or
design to show but made the suggestion OF hot-air
method the air to be passed through an opening In
the side of the into tight compartment heated D
fire. Thence it was to be waited by perforated
door into the main body of the car.
Mr.. Martin the inventor of tho Martin Anti-r1re
System OF Car Heating" took his turn next Inc
other two plans single car ones; his method was
o pipe one. running through the whole train; Inc
steam for heating the to be taken directly
from the locomotives boiler and sent as lar Dack
through connecting pipes and tubing and WIN as
much pressure desirable. trap was arranged LOT
under each car, through which the steam that CON
deased escaped automatically. To heat one oar lo5
one hour used up only two extra pounds OF ooal anu
an engine could draw train of ten cars any distance
heating them with the loss of but one Per cent OF
motive power On the Baltimore and Ohio kairoad'
where the Martin system had been tried. the engi-
amid nof difference
when the steam for the cars was on. Ho also read
letter from Master Mechanic Tourf of the Cleveland
Columbus Cincinnati and Indianapolis Railroad In
which that official stated the steam-ppe system had
been found TO be both safe and economical. IL had
cost $40 81 wear for each car heated by the od
method OF stoves The amount of steam used tor
heat was scarcely Improbable and the company put
value on that; Steamboat was sate agreeable and
cheap
mended boilers in all the big stations. Most OF the
stations at which trains wero made up were already
heated by steam The rest would have to have boilers
put In. The system, it admitted. had never been
tried with more Il an seven cars or tor longer than
ten hours run
The plan of the next inventor James Emerson. has
been tried for five years the Connecticut River
Railroad from Springfield TO Greenfield, run OF
thrty-six miles, with aif success 1t Is steampipe
one, the pipes drawing directly from tine locomotives
boiler An auxiliary boiler is put under each oar
however. heated by small stove. for use when the
car is detached the engine breaks down. With this
small auxiliary boiler alone cars have been run from
Sprin gfeld to White River Junction and kept well
heated all the time. Mr. Emerson admitted. too that
he had never tried heating from the locomotive, with
trains Of more than four He thought that the
great saving from his system was in space Eight
seats saved in each by taking out the stoves
or ono whole ear IN seven or eight
Inventor Gold. whose system ia now in nae on the
elevated TO ids, described il briefly IL Is simply the
storing of heat in salt water shut up in two cylinders
the boat charged IN two minutes from the engine
lasting for two hours. With larger cylinders II
would last for three four hours without renewal
Three other contrivanccs were shown. the hrst
patent fuel OF coal and cork chiefly, burning, but not
able to ignite other infammable material. Its nven
tor was n GERMAN Hebrew, named Cline. who tai ed
broken English. The second was II. b. Owens water
boiler an Improvement, its inventor thinks, on the
Baker heater in that II cannot burst or BIO broken
Mr. Owen will drop II oil the Forty fifth ST. bridge at
the Grand Central Station day to test it, vulnera
bility. The third stove again. with a contry-
ance to spill water over it In "A jar or shock.
The club will discuss the whole matter again At the
next monthly meeting.